CEPAL Review no. 124

164 CEPAL Review N° 124 • April 2018
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Figure 1
Number of documents required to import in 132 countries, 2010 a
(Number of documents and countries)
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6
4
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Source: Prepared by the authors, on the basis of data from World Bank, “World Bank Open Data” [online] https://data.worldbank.org/.
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Countries that maintained export and import flows with Chile continuously throughout 2006-2014.
5 000
4 500
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3 500
3 000
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Figure 2
Export costs in 132 countries, 2010 a
(Dollars and countries)
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Source: Prepared by the authors, on the basis of data from World Bank, “World Bank Open Data” [online] https://data.worldbank.org/.
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Countries that maintained export and import flows with Chile continuously throughout 2006-2014.
The average export cost in the Southern Cone countries rose from US$ 966.67 per-container in
2005 to US$ 1,772.9 in 2014, driven particularly by costs in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil
and Colombia. In 2005, these countries had the lowest per-container export costs, along with Peru;
but in 2007, 2008 and 2009, costs rose drastically. In particular, between 2012 and 2014, there was a
significant increase in per-container export costs in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (US$ 3,490),
Brazil (US$ 2,414), Colombia (US$ 2,355), Paraguay (US$ 1,850) and Argentina (US$ 1,650). Chile
and Peru have succeeded in maintaining the lowest costs per-container in South America: in 2014,
the average cost was US$ 890 in Peru and US$ 980 in Chile.
Trade facilitation and its effects on Chile’s bilateral trade between 2006 and 2014